With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive ...

Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michigan. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250607231844.htm ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

The fund bills itself as the largest philanthropic organization devoted solely to serving the Native American farming and ranching community. Since 2018 it has doled out $55 million in grants.

In the inaugural State of Native Agriculture Address, Native American ag leaders talked about gains made in improving tribal agriculture and its relationship to USDA, as well as work yet to be done.

This story was originally published by The Conversation.. Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of ...

Archaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan that defy limits of farming by Dartmouth College edited by Sadie Harley , reviewed by Robert Egan ...

A philanthropic organization serving the American Indian farming and ranching community is making $11 million available in its fifth year of grants.